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Jonestown at 40: The Real Conspiracy Is More Disturbing Than the Theories

By Rebecca Moore

…or deconstruct the hearts of people long expecting to die, it seems most appropriate to conclude that murder and suicide occurred on that day. That paradox is what has given rise to the proliferation of alternative theories. As political scientist Michael Barkun writes in A Culture of Conspiracy, the conspiracy theorist’s view is both frightening and reassuring. It’s frightening because it magnifies the power of evil …. At the same time, however,…

ABC’s Hit Sitcom Black-ish Does God, Pushes Theological Respectability

By Anthony B. Pinn

…ty minutes, questioning the existence of God, or denying it altogether, is presented as a problem to solve – one that points to a loss of “true” black identity, a departure from the safety of the African American community and its cosmic protector. Nonbelievers and doubters are presented as the foreign element, not authentically black, and we are asked to both laugh at (and pity) their identity crisis. In a word, those who question the existence o…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…, seven thousand black South Africans were killed under apartheid, and the number imprisoned was far higher. The Catholic Church neither kills nor imprisons ordained women and their supporters; excommunication, while painful, is not at all the same, even when financial losses accompany it. In 2007 I published an article in the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion explaining in some detail why highly educated white women simply cannot say that t…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ters are organizing almost daily. Marriage equality opponents have adopted Prop 8 proponents’ central fearmongering strategy. In the words of Thom Senzee at the Advocate, equality opponents are channeling Anita Bryant with ‘save our children’ messaging. More from Feder: The tactics of the No campaign — which is built around the argument that children will be harmed if same-sex couples are allowed to wed — look disturbingly familiar for American LG…

Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community

By Andrea Malji and Amarnath Amarasingam

…December 10, 2020, there have been 146 Covid deaths in Sri Lanka with a disproportionate number coming from the Muslim community; despite making up less than 10% of the population, Muslims account for nearly half of the reported deaths. A Muslim leader in Sri Lanka informed the authors that the number is actually higher, and that 82 Muslims have died, with over 70 cremations. The cremation of the victims was carried out by the state without the ap…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…th it, and am so grateful for the design team at the University of Georgia Press for producing such a beautiful work. Moreover, since it’s a collage of page images from some of the newspapers that I focus on in the book, the cover really fulfills the mission of showcasing the papers themselves. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? I’m not sure there’s a particular book I wish I had written, but there are certainly wr…

The Family Research Council’s Mistaken Identity

By Sarah Posner

…f Israel.” If Perkins is defending that kind of Christian, it might pose a problem for his efforts to be the protector of black America. Here’s the complete text of Southers’ remarks, courtesy of Media Matters for America: Most of the domestic groups that we have to pay attention to here are white supremacist groups. They’re anti-government and in most cases anti-abortion. They are usually survivalist type in nature, identity orientated. If you re…

Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims?

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…ng the images would cause riots from Indonesia to Nigeria; a repeat of the previous protests that led to a boycott of Danish products, attacks on Danish embassies, and a number of deaths. Last month in the New York Times, however, Reza Aslan countered that the controversy over the cartoons has died out and that in any case, there never was any violence over them in the United States. I agree with Aslan that the novelty of the cartoon depictions, w…

How Not To Defend Atheism

By Vlad Chituc

…e. The only privileged knowledge they claimed access to was of the future, providing prophecies as oracles. There wasn’t the same sense of conflict between science and religion as there is today. And it’s this sense of conflict, magnified to the extreme, that is the fundamental problem with Silverman’s Fighting God. It’s becoming clearer and clearer that there is an atheist counterpart to the religious fundamentalist—dogmatic, single-minded, and l…

Hell, in Rob Bell’s Own Words: State of Belief Radio

By The Editors

…mething, in my experience, a lot of people simply haven’t heard. So that’s probably where it started, a number of years ago. [WG]: This is going to sound like a flip question and it’s not a flip question; but Rob, why do we have to have hell? I mean there are people who seem to resent the fact that there would even be an opportunity for some people to enjoy whatever is we call heaven. It’s like they resent that. [RB]: Right, right. It’s very inter…